The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-10-14
Hanng at Dickinson.
AN EXCITING NIGHT IN AND AROUND
THE COLLEGE.

AN EXCITING NIGHT IN AND AROUND
THE COLLEGE.
The freshmen Of Dickinson College
have been hazed, and more thoroughly
and effectually than for number Of
years. A Carlisle special says. The
hazing was done at night, between the
hours of IL and 8. The scheme
originated in crowd on the campus
after the fraternity meeting. The
boys were singing and having good
time, when somebody proposed to
frighten the freshmen. The PROPOSE
ton was Immediately taken up, and
the crowd went over to West College,
where, by yelling, singing, and pound
ing on the wainsootting, they manag-
ed to frighten a number of the fresh
men, and to get nearly all the students
out. The sophomores then got togeth-
or and decided to haze the freshmen.
They had previously determined not
to do 80, as 81 greatly outnumbered
them, but their blood was now up,
and they started for East College,
where the largest number of students
room. Nearly all the upper classmen
went along to see the fun.
The first room visited was occupied
by two freshmen, and was close to the
doctors Office. In response to knock
it was opened, and the whole party
pushed in and filled the room. The
lamp was lit and space cleared.
Then @ blanket was snatched off the
bed and dozen sophs surrounded it.
A number of freshmen were present,
some from ignorance, others from
curiosity, and others as prisoners of
war. One was hustled into the blank
ct. "Put your hands up," was the
order. He complied, hardly knowing
why. "One, two, three and the un-
happy lad shot into the air and struck
the ceiling. His hands and feet saved
him from serious injury, but shower
of lime came down, binding and chok-
ing him, besides spelling his clothes.
Again and again he went up, while the
crowd shouted. Then he was mount
ed on coal box and invited to make
speech, sing comic song, and con-
jugate Greek verb.
Others followed, boys and whisker-
ed men, teachers and preachers, all
went up in the blanket, and danced
break down on coal box to the pat
ting of score of hands. Some when
they went up were doused with water;
others had their bare feet blackened.
The plastering began to come down,
and when the hole grew too big the
hazers adjourned to another room.
When the victims ran short the neigh
boring rooms were ransacked, and the
victims pulled out of bed, trotted
across the bare halls, and In through
the crowd in their night shirts. Room
after room was visited, and when the
occupants failed to respond the doors
we're kicked in, and they only Jared
the worse. Sometimes the hazers met
with resistance. In ore room jun
ior met them with club, but it avail
ed little. The young fellow plea led
that he had heart disease, and they let
him off with a song. Even then some
shouted, 'Toss him" On the campus
a scrimmage occurred in the crowd
and several students were struck.
The most exciting time was tho haz-
ing of the big man of the class, strap
ping six footer, with long football
record at his Jersey preparatory school.
He warned them away when they de-
manded admittance to his room, but
they burst ir the door. The room was
dark and silent as the grave, and the
hazers hung back. .'Come in," cried
the leader, and in they went, timor-
ously, expecting pistol shot. A
match was struck and the lamp lit. In
the far corner the big fellow stood on
his bed, undressed, grasping an eight
pound club high over his head.
"Keep back" he cried, "or there'l
be trouble"
The word was hardly out of hi.
mouth before burly soph was on the
bed with an iron grasp on the club. Il
dropped and the men grappled. TIC
and fro over the bed they tramped, pub
ing and struggling. The bed clothes
were rent and shirt split. The sopt
pinned him against the wall, the bee
slid out and they fell behind it, still
locked in each others grasp. Th,
crowd pulled them apart. There wa
more defiance and second advance
The freshmen's fraternity now inter
fered and talked to him in an under
tone. He looked at the hostile crowd
for they were all hostile then, and a
the new furniture certain to be mashed
Then he yielded, stepped forth, an
the triumphant sophs put him up lik
the rest.